Tag: AfCFTA
Trade Remedies and Safeguards: Important for States and Private Parties
21 Feb 22 PublicationsPart 4 of the AfCFTA Protocol on Trade in Goods contains several provisions on trade remedies and safeguards. Article 17 states that the State Parties may apply anti-dumping and co...
Will Trade Remedies be used as part of Trade Governance under the AfCFTA?
21 Feb 22 PublicationsVery few African States are active users of trade remedies and safeguards as part of their trade governance and trade policy implementation. Only four African countries – Egypt, ...
The AfCFTA Trade Remedy Regime can enhance rules-based Trade Governance
21 Feb 22 PublicationsSince only a small number of African States are active users of trade remedies and safeguards, the implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Agreement’s ...
Review of Africa’s Road Transport Infrastructure
21 Feb 22 PublicationsThe implementation of the African Continental Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) has the potential to contribute to achieving a key objective of the AfCFTA, by boosting intra-Africa trade. T...
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17 Feb 22 NewsCountry-related news
Trade conditions on an upward trend, Sacci survey shows (Engineering News)
Trade conditions continued to improve in January after an uncertain second half of...
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16 Feb 22 NewsCountry-related news
Red tape delaying R90bn investment in ready-to-go projects – Minerals Council (Mining Weekly)
Red tape is delaying investment worth R90-billion in ready-to...
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08 Feb 22 NewsCountry-related news
In 2019, SA celebrated its first smartphone factory. Now it is empty and going on auction (Business Insider South Africa)
Towards the end of 2019, Presi...
Should the AfCFTA accept a Flexibility Modality to launch preferential Trade?
01 Feb 22 BlogThe African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) is designed to function as one continental trade arrangement in the form of a Free Trade Area (FTA) for all the Member States of th...
Africa and the adoption of HS2022: Implementation update, impact and consequences in the context of AfCFTA
01 Feb 22 PublicationsThe new edition of the Harmonised Commodity Description and Coding System 2022 (HS2022) entered into force on the 1st of January 2022. This development means that Customs tariffs, ...
Making intra-African investment work for women: what should be considered in the AfCFTA Protocol on Investment
27 Jan 22 BlogThe ongoing negotiations of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Investment Protocol provide a unique opportunity to make the intra-African investment work for women. T...
The AfCFTA must cope with global and continental challenges alongside existing structures: How will it do so?
26 Jan 22 BlogThe AfCFTA is not only a trade deal. It is also a flagship project of the AU and must advance political and developmental aims to “deepen the economic integration of the African ...
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24 Jan 22 NewsCountry news
South Africa unlikely to see solid economic growth in near term, says GlobalData (Engineering News)
Against a backdrop of travel bans, higher inflationary pressures,...
REC Courts and the AfCFTA
24 Jan 22 BlogThe African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) adds an important new chapter to Africa’s economic integration agenda. The design of the AfCFTA regime will, however, require tha...
What does the AfCFTA want to be and what could it become?
24 Jan 22 BlogDo the legal instruments of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) contain a philosophy or strategy about deeper continental integration? What might this be? Is the AfCFT...
When will the AfCFTA be customs-ready?
24 Jan 22 BlogThe negotiations to finalise the tariff schedules and rules of origin (RoO) of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) are taking place during the last two weeks of Januar...
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19 Jan 22 NewsCountry news
Port cargo up marginally as trade recovers from Covid woes (Business Daily)
The Port of Mombasa recorded marginal growth in cargo volumes last year as business stead...
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17 Jan 22 NewsCountry news
Anxious times for South African citrus (Fruitnet)
With the start of the new South African citrus season only two months away, there is still no clarity on the negoti...
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14 Jan 22 NewsCountry news
South African economy likely to revert to pre-pandemic levels in 2022: World Bank (Financial Express)
South Africa’s economy is likely to grow by 2.1 per cent in 2...
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13 Jan 22 NewsNational trade news
Economic policy uncertainty and the loss of South Africa’s growth momentum: Can the decline be reversed? (Daily Maverick)
The gradual loss of growth momentu...
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12 Jan 22 NewsTrade data updates
Solid SA trade surplus surprises, but rand takes hit (Fin24)
South Africa recorded a trade surplus of R35.83 billion in November, from a revised surplus of R27...